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Insect That Stings

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99%9Exact Match!
noun

• robust hairy social bee of temperate regions

41%6Insect bites
noun

• a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung

• a mental pain or distress

• a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

• operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act

verb

• cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

• deliver a sting to

• saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous

• cause a stinging pain

• cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging

34%8Insect that stings equines
noun

• winged fly parasitic on horses

• large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals

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